An engraved invitation to Lincoln's second inaugural ball, filled out with the name of Mrs. Hugh McCulloch, the wife of Lincoln’s Comptroller of Currency (and later Secretary of the Treasury), accompanied by the original envelope addressed to Hugh McCulloch. Portraits of Lincoln and Andrew Johnson appear above a list.....
An official printing of an 1845 treaty, concluded and ratified under President James K. Polk, relating to the Creek lands in Florida, rectifying a treaty of 1833 which grouped the Creeks and Seminoles together and misled the Creeks with regard to the lands they would be given. The result was...
A charming broadside advertising the services of American silhouettist Moses Chapman, illustrated with silhouette cuts of a man and a woman and specifying costs and other particulars. Chapman informs the public that he is available from 8:00 am to 9:00 pm, and takes “correct Profiles, reduced to any size, two...